Lets us look over what analysts have to say about performance of the ZTO. Starting with EPS for the final quarter of this year. EPS is usually the indicator of profitability for the company. According to WSJ analysis, the Q4 2016 current estimates trends were for $0.10 as compared to the next year Q1 current trend of $0.15. While on annual basis the current EPS estimates trend for FY 2017 came in for $0.83 as compared to three months ago $0.86.

The stock prices target chart showed high target of 21 kept by analysts at WSJ while the average price target was for 18.44 as compared to current price of 12.88. Somehow, the stock managed to gain BUY ratings by 7 analysts in current tenure as 2 analysts having overweight ratings, 0 recommend as HOLD. Overall, the consensus ratings were for Buy by the pool of analysts.

Profitability Valuation

The profit margin can answer significantly to find consistent trends in a firm’s earnings, ZTO Express (Cayman) Inc. (NYSE:ZTO) has positive 19.60% profit margin that indicates every dollar of sales a firm actually keeps in earnings, and the larger number indicates improving and vise worse. The firm has gross profit margin of 35.20% and operating profit margin calculated as 28.30%. Moving toward returns ratio, ZTO has returns on investment of 10.10% which indicates firm’s investment efficiency or to compare the efficiency of a number of different investments. The firm attains analyst recommendation of 1.80 on scale of 1-5 with week’s performance of 11.32%.

Effective Investment Valuation

To persist focus on investment valuation, ZTO Express (Cayman) Inc. (NYSE:ZTO) also have significant role in eyes of active investors, it has price to earnings growth of 5.11, which is a valuation metric for determining relative trade-off among price of a stock.

ZTO has price to earnings growth ratio of 5.11, it is adding factors in a stock’s estimated earnings growth into its current valuation that showed 31.19 by price to earning ration. Furthermore, it has price to sale ratio of 6.75 that signifies the value placed on each dollar of a firm’s sales or incomes. The firm’s price to book was 3.12, which can be compared with current price to get idea about under or overvalue of stock. Forward Price to Earnings ratio of ZTO attains value of 15.46 that is projecting or estimating EPS for the next 12-months and its follow by traders who believe on anticipates of a firm’s future rather than past performance.

To have technical views, liquidity ratio of ZTO Express (Cayman) Inc. (NYSE:ZTO) calculated as 3.70 to match up with its debt to equity ratio of 0.02. The float short ration was 13.13%; as compared to Short Ratio were 3.87. The firm has institutional ownership of 12.90%.

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